Scaffolding a Teaching Strategy for Choral Music

Abstract

Abstract This chapter provides guidelines for analyzing, learning and memorizing, conducting, and teaching a choral score. It offers guidelines for analyzing, audiating, and conducting a score as well as specific strategies for teaching the piece to a choir. Music examples illustrating these strategies are provided. Included is a discussion of incorporating more strategies for using the Performance Through Sound Analysis and Notation model for teaching repertoire. The chapter concludes with an expanded choral rehearsal plan that integrates the preparation, presentation, and practice activities for learning a new score, as well as a detailed checklist for evaluating the effectiveness of a choral rehearsal plan.